ἄρσην
male
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἄρσην appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 50 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:27 ἄρσην And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
- Exodus 1:16 ἄρσην And he said, When you⌃ do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.
- Leviticus 1:3 ἄρσην If his gift be a whole burnt offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord.
- Numbers 1:2 ἄρσην Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindred, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male
- Joshua 17:2 ἄρσην And there was land assigned to the other sons of Manasse according to their families; to the sons of Jezi, and to the sons of Kelez, and to the sons of Jeziel, and to the sons of Sychem, and to the sons of Symarim, and to the sons of Opher: these are the males according to their families.
- Judges 21:11 ἄρσην And this shall you⌃ do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man you⌃ shall devote to destruction, but the virgins you⌃ shall save alive: and they did so.
- Job 3:3 ἄρσην Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a boy!
- Isaiah 26:14 ἄρσην But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up: therefore you have brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
- Jeremiah 20:15 ἄρσην Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to you.
- Malachi 1:14 ἄρσην And cursed is the man who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.
About this word
About this word
ἄρσην (ársēn), “male,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 50 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →